The Seismic Shift in Voting Demographics

[guno]

Very well stated , what we see now is the spawn of the teabaggers


Beginning in 2008, a vocal base of the Republican Party — whiter, older, and less formally educated — rebelled against the "otherness" of President Barack H. Obama. They challenged his veracity, religion, and citizenship. In that campaign, Senator John McCain had the decency to push back against the know-nothings in his own party.

Now the same party has nominated for president a man who has exploited this relentless wave of ignorance, once claiming that he sent investigators to Hawaii to uncover the secrets of President Obama's birth certificate. Such overt racism has infected the party at all levels. Who can forget the revealing 2010 rant of State Representative Curry Todd (R-Collierville) against the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause when he suggested that Latinos would multiply like "rats"? He was reelected two more times by the people of his district.

Though the GOP has been handed over to racists and xenophobes, there are signs that the American public has had enough of hateful speech and fearmongering. Representative Todd's political implosion and Trump's tumbling poll numbers may be omens of what's to come.

America is not the unhinged mob that Trump hopes to lead (bitter old uneducated crackas). Trump's downward spiral shows us that any person in America who aspires to public office has to live in a world defined by the demographic data upon which we're anchored.


The Seismic Shift in Voting Demographics

 

[Boss]

Very well stated , what we see now is the spawn of the teabaggers


Beginning in 2008, a vocal base of the Republican Party — whiter, older, and less formally educated — rebelled against the "otherness" of President Barack H. Obama. They challenged his veracity, religion, and citizenship. In that campaign, Senator John McCain had the decency to push back against the know-nothings in his own party.

Now the same party has nominated for president a man who has exploited this relentless wave of ignorance, once claiming that he sent investigators to Hawaii to uncover the secrets of President Obama's birth certificate. Such overt racism has infected the party at all levels. Who can forget the revealing 2010 rant of State Representative Curry Todd (R-Collierville) against the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause when he suggested that Latinos would multiply like "rats"? He was reelected two more times by the people of his district.

Though the GOP has been handed over to racists and xenophobes, there are signs that the American public has had enough of hateful speech and fearmongering. Representative Todd's political implosion and Trump's tumbling poll numbers may be omens of what's to come.

America is not the unhinged mob that Trump hopes to lead (bitter old uneducated crackas). Trump's downward spiral shows us that any person in America who aspires to public office has to live in a world defined by the demographic data upon which we're anchored.


The Seismic Shift in Voting Demographics

That's a nice narrative but it's largely untrue. What you are seeing is the result of establishment politicians not listening to their base. As a result, there has been a serious fracturing of the Republican party. You now have several distinct 'factions' who are not aligned in any fundamental way. The predominate faction are the "populist-nationalists" who propelled Trump to the GOP nomination, largely due to the fact Conservatives split their votes between several candidates.

Trump's poll numbers are tanking because he can't seem to unify the party. Instead of embracing a conservative message, he chose to attack conservatives because he thinks they will vote for him by default because, Hillary. This strategy will ultimately fail because the populist-nationalists have no core principles. But the damage has been done and it's irreversible.

For the moment, this bodes well for the Democrats and we'll likely see the nation turned into another failed Marxist experiment in the coming decade. Conservatives will recover but it will take several election cycles to see results. I do think this may effectively end the Republican party.